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From: flanery@mips.COM (Mike Flanery)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: A Color Mixing Question
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Date: 21 Nov 90 04:39:32 GMT
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I have recently written a "color editor" for X that allows the user to
"mix" colors using various different color models (rgb, cmy, hls,
hsv), but what I really want to do is create an interactive palette
that would allow the user to mix colors in a manner similar to an
artist mixing paints on a palette. I found a reference to "tristimulus
values" for colors and how a mixture of colors can be calculated from
their respective "tristimulus" values based upon proportions. But,
there was no explanation for determining tristimulus values from what
I am accustomed to working with: machine rgb values. 

Can some of you graphics/physics/color gurus out there shed some
(white) light on the issue of color mixing?

You can send me email, or post a reply.

Thanks.

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